70 The Fundamentals angels swell the chorus of Immanuel’s praises, while the uni- verse, from its myriad worlds, echoes the strain. (Rev. 5:8-14.) In the description of the final state of things—a state which shall be subsequent to the millennium (whatever that may be)—(Rev. 20:1-10), and also to the final judgment of both righteous and wicked (Rev. 20:11-15), and to the act of homage and fealty described in 1 Cor. 15:24-28, we find the Lamb still and forever on the throne. The Church is still “the bride, the Lamb’s wife” (Rev. 21:9). In that consum- mated state of all things, “The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it” (Rev. 21:22), the glory of God lightens it, “and the Lamb is the light thereof” (Rev. 21:23), the pure river of water of life still flows from beneath the throne of God and of the Lamb (Rev. 22:1), “the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him: and they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads” (Rev. 22:3, 4). Throughout the Apoca- lypse we never find Jesus among the worshippers. He is there the worshipped One on the throne, and with that picture the majestic vision closes. The inspired apostles had imbibed these ideas from the per- sonal teaching of their Lord, and subsequent revelations did but expand in their minds the seed-thoughts which He had dropped there from His own sacred lips. Paul nobly expressed the sentiments of all his brethren when he wrote, “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing” (2 Tim. 4:8). But surely He who claims supremacy, absolute and in- disputable, in morals, in divine institutions, in the Church on earth, in heaven, and in a consummated universe forever, must be Lord of all, manifest in human form. If he were not, what must He have been to advance such assumptions, and what must the book be which enforces them ?
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